Source?

Incredibly wrong. It’s fun arguing on the internet with people who haven’t the slightest clue about what they’re arguing about. Jesus fuck-me Christ

Controversial: I don’t give a god damn

Good. Let’s stop jesus-ifying idiots who make it in show business.

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An argument against this is that far more people in that organization are far more deserving of more money than the engineers fucking with the Wordle frontend for 200k/yr. What about the other people? These people aren’t the ones who are being oppressed.

It’s not. There wasn’t an argument. The question was “why are they striking?”

[NYT] says the workers, who are mostly engineers, are already among the highest paid at the company, earning an average salary of $190,000—$40,000 more than journalists in the Times Guild

Why are they striking? 190k is on the higher end even by Silicon Valley standards. (And 40k more than journalists??)

Elon Musks make engineering orders of magnitude more difficult. Those poor Tesla neoslaves

So they’re not paying severance to employees they fire?

We only attack ‘half-black’ entities, it’s politically expedient.

There’s one missing

Search engine quality in the United States is determined by 60-80 year olds who have only ever used Google to search for “lexisnexis.com”

Good point. I wonder if there was a way to like auto-transcribe these voice/video comments and automatically embed them in the source code so you have like a written-out comment that people could read.

This guy embeds TicTok URLs in source comments followed by long strings of emoji

And the Lord commanded, “Your cart ride to the infirmary shall be charged at 100 times the cost of service,” and it was so.

I just assumed it would be terrible because it’s a hard problem to solve generally, but like 98% of the time I don’t even realize it’s on (and it’s really easy to turn off). It’s seriously incredible.

People don’t understand that the average programmer’s EQ is in the top decile because they’re forced to work through the stages of grief several thousand times a year

Yeah, or batching changes and confirming receipt with a hash. From what I’ve been reading, the design seems a little janky.

Scalability does mean favoring monoliths because it costs money to scale and scaling here isn’t proportional to your instance’s users, it’s proportional to the size of the entire network.

60k users is today, not tomorrow. I’m thinking forward to 6000k users.